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Bridgestone sponsors Eco Rally 2010(15)
Bridgestone have stepped up as the sponsor of this year’s Brighton to London Eco-Rally. As the sole supplier of tyres to F1, Bridgestone is bringing well-known F1 names to the event, although exactly who is being kept under wraps and will be revealed at a later date. Launched in 2007 by HRH Prince of Wales, […]
Better Place electric vehicle company raises $350m
Two years after announcing its first car partnership and its first country deployment in Israel, Better Place today announced that it has signed an agreement with an HSBC-led investor consortium for new equity financing of $350 million. The deal marks one of the largest clean-tech investments in history and values Better Place at $1.25 billion.The […]
Solar plane makes maiden flight
Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has taken a prototype of Switzerland’s Solar Impulse aircraft on its first test flight. In the trial, a test pilot took the aircraft up to take off speed, just one metre off the ground for a distance of 350 metres at the Dübendorf airfield near Zurich. But Piccard has big ambitions […]
Lotus develops biofuel hybrid engine
Lotus Engineering, the engineering arm of the iconic British sports car maker, has announced a collaboration with Queen ’s University Belfast and Jaguar Cars Ltd to develop an engine which maximises fuel efficiency when running on renewable fuels. The OMNIVORE concept will employ novel engine architecture to achieve a high thermal efficiency when fuelled on […]